“There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I’ve never seen that before.”

I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects.

I’d rather be by myself than be spending any time or energy on somebody that I didn’t feel sure about.

My dad was an English professor.

I tend to like to make my statements more in fashion than in beauty, because what I normally respond to is when someone looks really effortless and deconstructed, beauty-wise, and they’re fashion is really grand. Someone like Kate Moss is a great example.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

I don’t really need a personal trainer or watch what I eat. I can’t start the day without a hot chocolate or finish it without a few squares of dark chocolate. It’s good for my mood!

When I’m playing a character, I don’t wear perfume.

I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

I feel a lot. I get really bad stomachaches all the time. So I went to a doctor, and he said, ‘You’re a feeler.’ I take on people’s pain a little too much.

When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls.

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that’s still there – it’s preserved.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

After my first year on ‘Gossip Girl,’ everybody said, ‘You’ve got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.’

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present.

My whole family’s been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.

I’ve taken two weeks off before I’ve played a major, and I’ve played two straight weeks before a major as well.

I definitely feel it’s important, whether I’ve taken time off or played right before, that I take necessary rest time in the weeks before the tournament.

Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.